It is a bad plan that cannot be altered.
- Pulibius Syrus

If you must break the law, do it to seize power, in all other cases observe it.
- Gaius Julius Caesar

The wise man speaks because he has something to say, the fool because he has to say something
- Aristotle

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

Benjamin Franklin

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." – C. S. Lewis


(Yeah it's a big quote but it's a good one.)

Murphy's Laws: Military Editon
 

6. If it’s stupid but it works, it isn’t stupid.

113. If only one solution can be found for a field problem, then it is usually a stupid solution.

101. Odd objects attract fire – never lurk behind one.

126. The quartermaster has only two sizes, too large and too small. (or “on order”)

107. Whenever you drop your equipment in a fire-fight, your ammo and grenades always fall the farthest away, and your canteen always lands at your feet.

89. Body count Math –> 3 guerrillas plus 1 probable plus 2 pigs equals 37 enemies killed in action.

80. The tough part about being an officer is that the troops don’t know what they want, but they know for certain what they don’t want.

131. Any ship can be a minesweeper . . . . once.

135. The more stupid the leader is, the more important missions he is ordered to carry out.

70. Whenever you have plenty of ammo, you never miss. Whenever you are low on ammo, you can’t hit the broad side of a barn.

"En vino veritas!" - old roman swiller...and Val Kilmer as Doc' Holliday in Tombstone

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

Billy Wilder

"As we get older, time seems to go by faster. This is not, as some seem to think, because with more years behind us they seem to compress in our memory. It is, rather, because once you get over the hill you pick up speed going down the other side."
― Don Bradfield, my dad

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Winston Churchill

We are a grandmother.

Margaret Thatcher

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

Margaret Thatcher

"Let me tell you a little secret: People in their seventies don't really appreciate listening to children in their fifties whine about feeling old."
― Don Bradfield, my dad, when my older daughter turned 21 and I complained about my age

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

Eleanor Roosevelt

"All so-called revealed religions consist mainly of three portions, a cosmogony more or less mythical, a history more or less falsified, and a moral code more or less pure."
― Sir Richard Francis Burton

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I, madam, may be drunk, but you are ugly. I will be sober in the morning.

Churchill